6 Legendary Mercenary Armies From History - History Lists

Thanks for sharing SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL
I noticed the French Foreign Legion was not included and neither were the legendary Gurkhas from the following list.
1. the “Ten Thousand” were a motley assortment of Greek warriors contracted by Cyrus the Younger to help oust his brother King Artaxerxes II from the Persian throne.
2. The White Company was one of the most infamous of the so-called “free companies”—bands of for-profit soldiers who conducted the lion’s share of warfare in 14th century Italy. [The nation of Italy did not exist until 1871, prior to that mercenaries and armies of the city states fought against each other and ruled various parts of what is now known as Italy.]
3. the Swiss Guard is known as striped-uniformed protectors of the Pope in the Vatican, but their history stretches back to bands of mercenaries that flourished during the Renaissance. More than one million Swiss adventurers fought in Europe’s armies between the 15th and 19th centuries.
4. the American Volunteer Group, the famed “Flying Tigers” were a three-squadron force of fighter pilots who fought with the Chinese against the Japanese during World War II.
5. the Catalan Grand Company was primarily composed of rugged Spanish veterans of the War of the Sicilian Vespers in Italy. Left unemployed at the conflict’s end, De Flor and his mercenaries contracted themselves to the Byzantine Emperor Andronicus II, who brought them to the Eastern Mediterranean to fight off invading Ottoman Turks.
6. Varangian Guard were a band of Viking mercenaries paid to serve as the personal bodyguard of the Byzantine Emperor.

My favorite. The Flying Tigers.

Another great read from you! I am partial to the Catalans as I have some of that DNA.